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Article: Depicting Description: Lukacs and Stifter.(philosopher Georg Lukacs; writer Adalbert Stifter)
- Article from:
- The Germanic Review
- Article date:
- June 22, 1998
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Throughout its history, the success and legitimacy of literary description have been a matter of measure and restraint.(1) Because description's disfiguring, alienating, and disintegrating effects are undeniable, its defenders have always been forced to justify and legitimize excessive description's problematic consequences. Most promising in this respect have been all those attempts that not only seek to justify description by external factors--such as its function for and within a narrative--but also attempt to identify sources of its legitimacy in the mode of describing itself. In this vein, Eckhard Lobsien is able to substitute for description's failed ...